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| My own personal reason is that I travel about a lot and I am rarely in Donny for more than a couple of days at a time.
I think the traditional mon-fri, 9-5 working week is slowy dying out. People now tend to work more on an ad-hoc basis (shift work, 0 hours contracts, internet businesses etc.). The days when you all worked in the same place and the weekends were 'leisure' time is slowly changing.
When I was a regular I went for the atmosphere, friends, drinks, singing and shouting random things at men 3 times your size. The success of the team never really mattered to me I as I always knew we were going to stay at the same level. I enjoyed the characters at the club and the interaction between players and fans. I don't honestly know how much of this still applies at the Keepmoat because I have only been to a handful of games but I suspect is has lessened?
I read on another thread about the lack of young fans at the Keepmoat. If this is true, then this is definitely a worrying aspect. I don't know what the prices are like at the rugby but football certainly excludes youths in my opinion. I'm talking about those who are 16-21 who arn't in work or don't get enough money off their parents to go to a match on the weekend. I think if you lose em in at that point it's hard to draw them back in.
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| I would also add that in general I think sports attendances reflect the state of the economy. Under the boom years of the 2000's both rugby league and football attendances increased gradually. This has now come to a halt with the recession and stagnation. Doncaster is still a relatively poorer town compared to the rest of the country.
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| Quote: Dodgerydoo "I attend as many games as possible but can understand why people have stopped going to games, not only at the Dons, many covered in the poll. For me I believe one of the main reasons that support/interest for RL has diminished is due to the quite obvious lack of media support.
From local papers through to national TV we are still made out to be the poor relations of Rugby Yawnion, add that to the obsessive football coverage.
Every season I hope the RFL will launch a sustained media campaign, RLWC a great opportunity, but I doubt it'll happen.'"
With all due respect I do not understand why the lack of media support should deter someone from attending his club's matches. Surely a lack of media coverage should have the opposite effect and make it even more important for a true fan to be there.
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| I think making the effort is the problem for some.
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| Snagsboson and myself have the same problem.
Weighman mentions making the effort is the problem and I agree but if i can attend the Sheffield game coming up then anyone can. I will get to the game at 230 ish and leave after the match at 5. Go straight to work as im on 12 hour nights and finish at 6am monday morning then drive home which gets me back in at 7am. If i can do that then im sure other people can as well.
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| I did say for some Karlos, not all.
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| Yes I know mate.I just think for some people its too much trouble thats all.
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| Unfortunately now work a lot of Sunday's so miss more than can watch. Think have only made 5 home games this season, and can't see it changing for some time.
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| Lowest crowd in the Championship yesterday 597.
No need to make any comment.
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| Lowest crowd for the form team of the division and if they do achieve 6th they will have achieved the best they could this season. As mentioned in other posts I think that some fans get to games when they can due to work/family/financial reasons and there is an hardcore who attend week in week out and always will. I think crowds are an issue right across the professional clubs in Doncaster rovers/dons/knights/belles have all asked a similar question and I just dont think it is a sports focussed town. I have lived and worked in other towns of similar size and the profile and fan interest and general public pride in their clubs seem to be much higher. The hardcore fans will always be hardcore and there will continue to be those that get to a game when they can. The club pushes its profile within its budget and this generally means RL websites & publications which is preaching to the converted and to be fair coverage in the DFP has been good lately. So aside from having a large commercial budget and dept and and creating a better game day experience and increasing the club profile in a much wider media I am not sure what they can do. Maybe losing the community workers this year has had an effect on attendances as the opportunity to get into schools and community clubs and accessing future fans and their parents is reduced if not lost this year. Not the clubs fault as central funding was withdrawn. I dont have an answer just thoughts, its a tough one!!
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| I understand the because of work issue & the money issue but I am sure others just cannot be bothered.
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| If a newcomer or resident in the Doncaster MBC
Doesn't have access to a computer
Doesn't take a local or national newspaper
Doesn't look at the teletext sporting pages
Doesn't have Sky
Doesn't listen to local radio
Never drives by Tattersfield or the Keepmoat
How would they know when the Dons are playing at home?
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| Id say they must live in a bubble and have no interest in life. Finances are a big factor today, kids stay on at school longer or go to uni , so can't afford the full price, but are over 16, perhaps a student price for 16-18 year olds in education ?
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| Quote: donny hkr "Id say they must live in a bubble and have no interest in life. Finances are a big factor today, kids stay on at school longer or go to uni , so can't afford the full price, but are over 16, perhaps a student price for 16-18 year olds in education ?'"
I was in Doncaster town centre on Saturday & I didn't see any posters promoting the Swinton game.
The Dons always used to advertise there home games with posters stuck on the inside of the windows of the buses it was a simple & cheap way of promoting the home games.
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| Surely if you were interested in going to a rugby match you would find out where there is one .
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